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English Writer best remembered for Imaginary Conversations, prose dialogues between historical personages. 1775-1864

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“Ah, what avails the sceptred race! / Ah, what the form divine!”
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“The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.”
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“George the First was always reckoned / Vile, but viler George the Second; / And what mortal ever heard / Any good of George the Third? / When from earth the Fourth descended/ God be praised, the Georges ended!”
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“Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.”
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“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature”
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“There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it”
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“Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him”
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“Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much”
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“No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner”
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“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good”
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